Virtualization Monitoring & Analytics

Virtualization and cloud computing make datacenters more nimble but also create new complexities. Additional layers of abstraction in datacenters make problem investigation, resolution and avoidance difficult. Datacenter administrators, managing virtual environments want the ability to:

• Link user or application related issues to events happening in the infrastructure tiers, be it physical or virtual
• Store historical data from all technology tiers in full fidelity and use it for analysis, trending and troubleshooting and pattern detection
• Proactively prevent performance problems, resource utilization or unexpected changes from impacting users
• Track user activity and find potential security threats before they impact the environment

Existing IT management technologies either offer inadequate insights into virtual environments or provide a limited view and focus solely on the virtualization layer. Most of them cannot collect or store performance data at full fidelity due to storage limitations and the inability to scale. As a result, many problems in virtualized environments remain unresolved and manifest themselves as recurring issues.

Comprehensive Virtualization Visibility Using the Splunk Apps for Server Virtualization

Splunk Apps for virtualization combine the power and flexibility of Splunk with a tailored experience for virtualization technologies. These apps accelerate data collection from the virtual infrastructure and combine this data with data from other technology tiers such as storage, networking, applications and operating systems for a 360° perspective of the datacenter.

Splunk Apps harness data from popular server virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V. Report and analyze across the diverse virtualization technologies with Splunk.

The Splunk Apps for virtualization technologies provide the ability to:

• Correlate virtualization data with data from other technology tiers. Find causal links between application performance issues and the underlying hypervisor, storage, networking and server infrastructure
• Granular performance management and analysis. Collect and persist deep granular performance data directly from the hosts and virtual machines
• Complete operational visibility and capacity analytics. Find capacity constrained hosts, idle virtual machines, underutilized clusters and overprovisioned datastores; track performance statistics to find usage patterns and likely capacity bottlenecks
• Change tracking and asset reporting. Track detailed user-initiated changes, automated vSphere actions as well as report on inventory and status of virtual components
• Security reporting and monitoring. Monitor the environment for suspicious activity, user role changes, unauthorized access and more

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Splunk App for VMware

Splunk App for Server Virtualization (Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V)

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